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The Demon's Lexicon QUOTES

The Demon's Lexicon QUOTES

1 " My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Lexicon

2 " Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Lexicon

3 " He knew her now. She was the weird girl in the class above him, who dyed her hair pink and always wore a lot of pentragrams and crystals. Right now she was also wearing giant chandelier earings and a violent pink T-Shirt that bore the words ROMEO AND JULIET WOULDN'T HAVE LASTED. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Lexicon

4 " Nick could see the gun shaking in Alan's hand now, in tight, terrified spasms. "Last night we put a magician in the river," Alan said, his voice low and intense as if he was making a promise."Maybe we should send you to join him."
"You know the rules," the woman whispered. "Don't shoot the messenger."
Nick interrupted, leaning down to speak in her ear. "Do they say 'Don't cut the messenger in half with your great big sword'? "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Lexicon

5 " I don’t know what I saw. It could’ve been a hallucination. You get those from sniffing glue.”

“You’ve never sniffed glue!”

“I’ve smelled glue,” Jamie said after a pause. “In art class. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Lexicon

6 " On the morning of the fourth day, Jamie tipped a switchblade out of his box of cornflakes.
 
“I think these promotional campaigns have really got out of hand,” he said, freezing with
his hand on the milk carton. “One shiny free knife with every packet of cereal bought is
not a good message to send out to the kiddies. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Lexicon

7 " I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?"
PITY "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Lexicon

8 " Unfortunately, the headlights of the car were bright enough for them to see Mae's outfit quite clearly.
"Oh my God," said Nick, and shut his eyes. Jamie gave a small, nervous laugh.
"What?" Mae demanded. "Alan told us that we were supposed to dress as we truly are!"
"And you felt that what you truly are is a Christmas tree with too much tinsel." Nick grinned. "Huh. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Lexicon

9 " The girl might have an unsettling crying problem, but she was pure steel. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Lexicon

10 " Some magicians are rich, some are famous, some are stupidly good-looking.'

Jamie gave Nick a rather complicated look.

Nick raised an eyebrow. 'Some of us manage to be stupidly good-looking on our own. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Lexicon

11 " I have changed my mind. You can help cook by standing in a corner and not touching anything. Do it carefully.
-Nick to Jamie "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Lexicon

12 " He only shot one person," Nick remarked. "But the night is young." . . .
Forgive him, he has no manners."
I get by on good looks," Nick said. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Lexicon

13 " The cut in Nick's arm was starting to throb dully with the pressure he was putting on it. He kept looking at Alan. 'How many times have you lied to me?' he asked in a soft voice.

Alan replied, equally softly, 'I've lost count. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Lexicon

14 " Get down,' he whispered.
 
'I’m way ahead of you,' Jamie said from the floor. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Lexicon

15 " I expected something a little more castle-shaped," said Jamie.
Nothing lasts forever," Nick said. "Except demons, of course."
Has anyone ever told you that you're a charming conversationalist?" Jamie asked.
No," Nick replied honestly.
I cannot tell you how much that surprises me," Jamie told him, and Nick gave him a half smile. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Lexicon

16 " The drab brown front of the house made it look as if it had been built from rusty spare parts. Someone always put lace curtains in the windows of dreary houses, and Nick was unsurprised to see the curtains making their attempts in every window of this place. There was a china garden gnome on the doorstep, wearing a desperate, crazy smile.
"It's not so bad," Alan said.
"You never take me nice places anymore, baby." said Nick, and was mildly gratified by Alan's ring of laughter, like a living bell that had been caught by surprise when it was struck. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Lexicon

17 " The word 'home', it seemed, once learned, was a hard one to forget. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Lexicon

18 " Nick subjected him to a long, judgmental stare. "There's something very wrong with you," he said at last. "I thought you should know. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Lexicon

19 " You're dressed for dancing," she said in her throaty stage voice.
"Being undressed for dancing occured to me, but I didn't think Merris would like it. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Lexicon

20 " He had called girls to him before. There was nothing so easy whether you were walking into a classroom, a club, or down the street. All you had to do was send out the right signals, give her the right look, turn your body the right way, and never for a moment let it cross your mind that she might not be interested. "

― Sarah Rees Brennan , The Demon's Lexicon